Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-01-19
THE HUMAN APPETITE.
Quoer Dishes from Every Habit
able Part of tho Globe.
Countries Where Bears raws, Elcphants'
Feet, Deers' Noses and Odd Parts of
Other Animals Are Considered
Epicurean Morsels.
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Household words1
The New Brunswica1ers lad a special
charm in the loose nose of the moose deer
Sharks fins and fish maws, unmatched
ducks and chickens, sea-slugs and birds
nests are all priced by the omnivorous Chi
nese. The Parisians eat horse-fiesh; and
at the exhibition of 1861 NJ Brocchieri
showed and sold delicious cakes, patties
and bon-bons of bullock's blood, rivaling
the famous marrons glaces Of the confis-
cries of the boulevards. This seems almost
q triumph of art. In Havana the shark is
openly sold in the market, and the Chinese
ascribe special invigorating virtues to its
fms and tail. The Gold Coast negroes are
all fond of sharks as they arc OF hippopot-
ami and alligators, and the Polynesians
are also very fond of sharks flesh quite
raw.
Caymans ald crocodiles, lizards and frogs
are all eaten AMI enjoyed by certain people.
The typical crocodile is like veal; but some
species have strong flavor of musk, and
some arc like young, juicy pork, while others
resemble lobster. Others, again, have a
powerful, fishy taste, Very disagreeable. On
the whole, therefore, crocodile is uncertain
eating, and not to be ventured on with RASH
ness. Alligator is supposed to be invigor-
Gtlng and restorative. and at Manila is sold
at high prices, the Chinese clutchiny
at the dried skin, which they use in their
awful messes of gelatinous soup Alligator
is ikcned to sucking pig, but its eggs have
musty flavor.
The French arr notoriously addicted to
frogs, which command a high price in New
York also, where they sell the large bull
frog, sometimes weighing half pound
as well as the tender little green
animal (rana esculenta) whose hind
legs taste so like delicate chicken
when served with white sauce in restau-
rants and hotels of Paris and Vienna
OF course, frogs do not escape the Chinese,
VINO Gevour every thing with blood and
fiber, and the negroes of Surinam eat the
loathsome Surinam toad. Monkeys are
also considered good eating in some coun-
tries. African epicures are never more
charmed than when they can dine off a
highly seasoned, tender young monkey,
baked Gypsy fashion in the earth. The
great red monkey, the black spider monkey
and the bowling monkey are all eaten by
the various peoples among whom they are
found. The flesh of the monkey is said to
be both nutritious and pleasant.
One species of bat is considered good eat
ing by the natives of the islands of the In
dian archipelago, MalaSar, etc. it is called
by naturalist5 the edible bat, and it is said
to be white, tender and delicate; but for all
that, il is hideous beast, like a weasel.
with ten-irch body, covered with close
and shining black hair, and with four foot
wings, when stretched to their full extent.
In the South Seas, too, dog is a favorite
dish, and puppy stew is royal feast in
Zanzibar; but it is only fair to say that
where dog is eaten it is especially fattened
| for the table and fed only on milk
md IL ):
| tIalian native dog or dingo is eaten
by the blacks, but by no one
| else; and q South African will give q
cow for good-sized mastiff. The American
| panther and the wild cat of Louisiana are
said to be excellent eating. so is the puma,
| which is so like veal i'll flavor that one
hardly knows the difference. Lions nesh.
| too, is almost identical with veal in color.
taste and texture Bears paws were long
German Gelicacy, and the flesh is held
| equal or superior 10 pork, the fat being as
white as snow. The tongue and hams are
clr>d, but the head is accounted worthless
| and thrown away. The badger tastes like
will boar. The Australian kangaroo is not
much inferior to venison, and kangaroo
tail soup is better than half the mcsses
which pass in London under the name of
| ox-tail soup flashed wallaby is dish no
species of kangaroo as good as any hare
ever cooked. An Australian native ban
quet is an odd mixture. Kangaroos and
Walla5ies, cpoSsums AMI flying squirrels.
kangaroo rats, wuIlbat3 and baudicoots
represent the pieces de resistance while
rats, mice, snakes, snails, large white mag
| gots, worms and grubs form the little
dishes ana most-favCred entrees. A nice,
| fat marmOt is trca:-why notl They arc
| pure feeders.
The muskrat of Martinique is eaten,
| though indcscribably loathsome to Euro
pean; but the seek rats of the sugar-cane
plantations make one of the most delicate
| fricasSces Imaginable, so tender. plump,
| cleaniy and luscious are they. The Chinese
are in 4 rat paradise in California, where
the rats arc enormously large, highly fla
vored, and very abundant, rat soup being
| considered by al righ.-minicd celestials 10
beat ox-tail or gravy soup hollow. The In
dians eat the beaver, which is said to be like
| pork, and porcupine is a prime dish with
the Dutch and Hottcntots of the Capc and
with the Hudson Bay trappers, and, in
deel, with the inh lbitants of all the coun
trie' whcrs the creature is found, the lesh
| being good and delicate, and, moreover,
accounted exceedingly nutritious.
Elephants feet, picked in strong teddy
vinegar AMI cayenne pepper, are consid-
cred in Ceylol an Apician luxury. The
| trunk is said to resemble buff llois hump
and the fat is 50 highly priced by the bush.
men that they will go almost any distance
for it. Hippopotamus fat is also considered
a treat; when saltcd it is thought superior
TO our breakfast bacon, and the flesh is
| bI IN palatable and nutritious. the fat being
used for all the ordinary uses of butter